The pursing vehicles noticed the change and immediately initiated their own to catch up and this time all the vehicles pulled down the wind glasses by the sides, hands with lazer hand guns and rifles poked out. Soon long thin lines of crimson lazer bolts shot out of the three vehicles headed at Marvel’s air car. Marvel piloted the car on a swift evasive dive taking advantage of the internal gyro and stabilizer, maintaining internal stability despite the multiple rolls. Several of the lazer bolts missed their targets but some hit the car frame with ping sounds that ended in hiss as the heat sink tech of the black color coating of the car dissipate the concentrated heat at the core of each bolts, while the armored covering dealt with the kinetic force.
“Fancy driving, “ the Mole grained. “Bet you are one hell of a pilot. “
“On a fair fight with equal footing, we would have been blasted to smithereens. “
“And who the hell said that every fight has to be fair. “ The Mole grained with his metallic replaced teeth glinting in the poor hued light of the air car dashboard. “So can we hit em back with something unfair? “
“Soon, we are almost at the suburb town. “
“Ok, still that won't stop me from taking a pea shot at them. “
“Be my guest. “ Marvel said, with one hand on the air car steering and the other hand raised with a shrug and palm opened .

The air car wind shield slide down on the passenger’s side, and the heavy breeze resulting from the speed of the car’s flight smacked the Mole on the face. His single eye closed tight as it was buffeted but the electronic/mechanical eye stayed on. With it, he locked on the shooter at the shotgun side of the red van. He pulled the trigger on the plasma rifle and an orange color bolt shot from the muzzle and hit him on the face. The head of the shooter glowed red then blew apart in burnt flesh and pieces of charred bone pieces . The dead body slide back into the car as the lazer rifle fell off nerveless fingers dropping to the ground some hundreds of feet below. The sudden attack made the driver of the van jump suddenly on his flight seat, which lead him to yank the steering control of the van sharply to the right and narrowly missed colliding with the other gray air car by his side. It was a dexterous quick reflex on the part of the driver of that car that prevented the impending accident .
“I love plasma rifle, accurate, clean kill with no mess and zero recoil. “ The Mole said as he kissed the gun.
“We are over the suburb, below are empty areas all straight to the lake. “ Marvel told his friend as he checked the tactical readouts from the tac screen.

“Ok, single shot is out, I’m going full auto. “ the Mole poked only the muzzle of the gun out this time because his shot had made their pursuers realize that they are armed and has been sending bolts after bolts of lazer fire the car’s way, so it is a bit hazardous for the Mole to expose himself. “Move a bit to your port side till I indicate otherwise. “
Marvel complied as the Nexon 3 swayed and the Mole got his target aligned with his electronic eye and the muzzle of his plasma riffle. When he pulled the trigger, this time it wasn't just a single orange colored bolt that flew from it, but multiple bolts, that despite the late evening sunlight, has enough brightness to be visible. The Mole’s target was the black air car by the right side of the red van. The plasma bolts hit the windscreen of the black air car and it imploded with the flight canopy shattering into a thousand pieces of plastiglass. As the bolts continued to rain on the car, it sliced through the bodies of the four men inside it. The plasma bolt generated intense heat within the car, that the interior glowed red then exploded, with the fusion cell of the air car blowing up due to the intense heat creating secondary explosions which turned the car to a burning wreckage as it fell to the ground. It blossomed into a fireball upon making contact.
“That must have felt like the inside of a microwave for those poor souls that don’t know better not to mess with the Mole. “

“Don’t get too Cocky Mole, look at what they have decided to throw at us next. “ Marvel told his partner as he continued to focus on the readouts scrolling through the tac screen.
“Oh these guys just got really serious. “ the dark skinned Mole said as he observed that the red van’s side slide backwards on both sides, and two men leaned out pointing two stubby cylinders at Marvel’s air car. “Those are RPGs, from what I can see on the tactical readouts, the rockets on them are armed with multi explosive warheads with semi-smart auto targeting sensors. “
“Yea, “ Marvel agreed as red dots on the tac screen began to blink creating a low shrill alarm sound in the cockpit of the air car.
“Do we have any defense against that? “
“ I can’t say. “ Marvel said as he continued to move the car at the steady speed he was on most of the chase. “It depends on what the explosive materials the warheads are carrying it. “ Just then the sound of the low shrill increased to a fevered pitch. “They are locked on. “
From the sides of the red van, the RPGs on the shoulders of those holding them jerked gently as the rockets on them spew out from the tubes and with instant burst of speed headed for their target.

Marvel the great pilot, fighter, bounty hunter and super human is back in action.

The Nexon 3 car blurred as it sped through the air approaching Mach speed. The rockets from the RPGs have been specially designed to target armed flyers and hover guncrafts with hypersonic abilities, so Marvel’s car moving at near sonic speed won’t escape it. At least for a limited range, those rockets are capable of hypersonic speed. One weakness of these rockets are that they are heat sensitive. This fact was shown to Marvel on the tac screen, so his increase of speed is not to escape but to give him space to maneuver. The sudden burst of speed has already taken him well over the lake at Burbio. There is a compartment behind his car with a chute to shoot flars that comes up with sudden heat that may be strong enough to fool the heat seeking sensors of the rockets warheads. But he have to be very careful with this because those rockets are semi smart and won’t easily be fooled .
Marvel’s car flies with the use of fusion propulsion, which makes the back of his air car where the engine is very hot and that is the area where the rockets sensors are locked on. He will have to look for a way to convince the rockets to lock on a different heat source or confuse their targeting abilities completely. The fortune thing about it is his car can also use anti gravity rings underneath it to hover. If he put off his fusion engine in other to take out the heat source the rockets are locked on, he won’t be able to move fast enough to get out of the rockets way, beside his car may not get cold quick enough to fool the rockets.

He drove the car downward towards the lake, at a speed that will make the car come in contact with the water surface in about 2.2seconds. At that speed, his air car will scatter, no matter how armored it is once it hits the lake due to the weight of the impact. Immediately he pulled on the reverse and directed the car upwards. Gravity already holds the car so the sudden change won’t take effect immediately, Marvel already anticipated this. At the same time, he spilled the flares hidden in the chute behind his car. The flares flashed white hot as they generated heat because of the strontium nitrate in them. They appeared as huge fire flies following the flight trail of the car towards the lake. As the gravity hold on the car got defeated by the reverse control Marvel had activated earlier, the car turned upward before hitting the surface of the lake. As that happened, Marvel put off the fusion engine and activated the antigravity rings beneath the car. The force of inertia and propulsion pushed the car upwards but it wouldn’t turn erratically because the antigravity rings held it steadily. Just then Marvel punched in a special button that released anti fire thermal suppression foam, which immediately cooled down the exhaust area of the fusion drive, giving the surface a lesser temperature than the blazing flares heading for the surface of the lake.

The heat seeking sensors of the rockets warheads, sensing no other higher temperature than the flares followed them to the surface of the lake and exploded on contact. The sudden explosion was big enough to hide the escape of the Nexon 3 from the pursuers because the speed of the maneuvers left them far behind .
“Now I think it’s time we show these kids how the big boys play. “ Marvel said to the Mole who was calmly quiet while the bounty hunter performed his evasive maneuvers. The car was hovering several hundred of feet above the lake that was now burning furiously from the aftermath of the rockets explosions. Marvel brought back the fusion drive to life and headed for the red van and the gray air car that were already over the lake to be sure if their target was hit. Marvel activated the mini guns under the doors of the air car, as it moved at blurring speed towards the red van. The covers over the mini chain guns opened and the long tri-barrel muzzles of the guns poked out. He located the firing control of the guns and pressed down the trigger. With rapid sounds like when a chain saw is at work, the mini guns spew out armor piecing uranium core bullets, at a rate of thousands of rounds per minutes. These are bullets that are made to cut through a six inch armored titanium steel. The van was at one second slowly moving over the lake and the next second it simply disintegrated as the bullets perforated all its body. The bullets chewed through the thin steel surfaces like they weren’t there. Metal, flesh and blood were scattered in equal sizes and all fell down the lake causing the surface to churn.

“Like I said, you will make a good fighter pilot. “ the Mole said impassively as he surveyed the carnage .
The gray air car turned swiftly as it saw the manner in which the van was dispatched, with its fusion cell powered car driving at max speed it headed out of the lake for escape .
“Mole will you do the honors? “ Marvel asked as he moved his air car in pursuit .
The Mole brought the plasma rifle out, pushing the muzzle beyond the opened side window and aimed for the exhaust of the fusion cell thrusters of the gray car, as it flew at speed in excess of 600km/hr. When the Nexon 3 got in range, he selected the third setting of the plasma gun after the single shot, automatic and the sustained beam. The plasma bolt hit the gray car’s back at the fusion thrusters but with a sustained beam hit. The metal of the car turned bright red from heat and the heat ignited the fusion cell. The cell caused the car to explode in an impressive pyrotechnic display of electric fire. The burning car with its roasting passengers plummet into the cold lake .
“I love this bitch .” The Mole said as he kissed the plasma rifle again.

I'm beginning to love this Mole,bt when will my guy Hardwire be in Action na ?..nice work man

Seriously speaking I miss hardwire

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Marvel had gotten to the meeting place with the contact some minutes earlier, he had parked his air car at a point he can watch all entrances to the place and get a glimpse of the contact as she gets in there. Lago derranado was one of the major bustling city in the planet with lots of highbrow hotels and expensive restaurants. The restaurant the contact had chosen for the meeting is Jardín de crístal restaurant built in a wide cylindrical form with glasses, iron pillars and duracrete floors of fifty-two stories. The ground floor was a full restaurant with glass all around through which Marvel has an unobstructed view of the contact when she came in.
He was still in his air car watching and taking note of possible stalkers or watchers when he got a flash message on his wrist comm to view a local planetary holo vid station. He turned away the readings from the tac screen and pulled up a broad cast from a local station. The image that appeared was a familiar one. Same as that when the holo vid showed that the senator and his family had been kidnapped and a demand has been made. The giant masked man was standing over the battered kneeling and bound image of the senator, speaking and gesturing with his gun. Just like the other holo vid, other armed and masked men were behind him pointing guns at the cowed woman and her twin teenage daughters. Marvel increased the volume to hear what the kidnapper will be saying.

Next pls

“… heard that the earth Global senate has convened an emergency meeting to reconsider their vote on the total colonial autonomy bill. “ the giant was saying, lifting up the gun in one hand and touching his chest with the other. “So as a sign of good faith, though the time given for the execution of the senator is over, we the Colonies Liberation Front have decided a stay of the senator’s execution awaiting the outcome of the emergency meeting. If the earth government decides to let the colonies be free, the senator and his family will be released without further harm. But if they maintained their initial stand, we will go ahead with the public execution of not just the senator alone but his along with his family at the same time. We will continue with our campaign until all of earth government officials are captured and publicly executed. We will not relent, we will not stop, we will not back down until the colonies are free. Freedom to the colonies. “
Marvel switched off the holo vid broadcast as he has heard everything he needed to hear. It had taken him a long time and several arguments to convince general Leyland to get to the president and persuade him to get the senate agree to act as if they want to deliberate on a change of policy. He said if the kidnappers noticed that there is an emergency senate session going on to deliberate on a possible policy change, it may make the kidnappers hold on executing the senator for the moment as that is the only leverage they have over the earth government. This will give Marvel enough time to attempt a rescue. The initial five hours can’t work. The general have refused initially, though he said he understood what Marvel was proposing, based on the fact that, his proposed move will appear to the public as if the government is succumbing to terrorists threats. The government policies for centuries has been no negotiations with terrorist. But with what he just saw from the holo vid, seems the power that be bought into his idea.

“So they finally agreed and it seem to work. “ the Mole echoed Marvel thoughts after the broadcast station was turned off.
“Evidently I just bought myself some precious time. “ Taking a look around the surrounding again, and not seeing any odd movement, he turned to his friend. “You think it’s safe now to meet the contact? “
“Seems clear so far. “ The Mole mimicked his move, then turned back to him. “You go ahead and meet her, I will scout around back on foot and meet you in there when I’m sure it’s all clear. “
Marvel got off the car, locked it, headed for the entrance of the restaurant while the Mole took the opposite , going round the other side. The Jardín de crístal has several beautiful trees planted within its compound creating an avenue for the road leading to it, and several cool areas where long benches with back rest are kept for people to sit on, creating a kind of park scenery, but also making Marvel’s reconnaissance of the place a living hell, as it gives multiple rooms for a stalker to hide. Though night had fallen, the areas around the tree were brightly illuminated with floating energy light bulbs adding to the beauty and serenity of the place, a multicolored rainbow hue displaying beneath the branches of the trees .
At the entrance of the hotel, Marvel was frisked politely, but his bounty hunter badge and a high security clearance when the security men tried to confirm his authorization from an external source allowed him to enter the place with his hand guns.

The ground level of the restaurant was brightly lit, with a careful and skillful blending of different colored lights to give the impression of being under the sun on a warm summer evening. The place was filled with tables and chairs, almost all occupied with people, conversing and eating. Smartly dressed waiters on white tuxedoes and black pants moved around with trays filled with requested orders. Apart from the low din of subdued conversations and the low humming of the different music played on each table by the request of those occupying it, the place would have been quiet .
He saw her, the contact, sitting in the same sit where he had observed her from outside. She was putting on a tight fitting sleeveless gown of cream color with a V shape white cut-in from the shoulders to the stomach area. The material for the dress appears to be from something that looks silky bright. Marvel stood for a minute watching her and contemplating how to approach this, Jade has always made him uncomfortable. Jade lifted her head then, saw him and waved enthusiastically as if at a long missed boyfriend. Marvel sighed and walked briskly to her table .
“Hi Marvel nice to see you. “ she waved him to an empty chair beside her but Marvel took the one opposite her across the round plaswood table. “I was really hoping general Leyland really understood the seriousness and urgency of the last Intel I sent to him so he can ask you for help. “
“So you recommend he employ me for this?”

“Not directly though but I kind of hinted on it.” Jade got her elbows on the table then crossed her hands under her chin. “Marvel what else could I have suggested when it was obvious the leak we have in the security is way up the hierarchy, any sanctioned move will be compromised, whether covert or overt. “
“Well considering what I just experienced, this mission might already be compromised. “
“What happened? “
Marvel told her about the attack on him as he came in planet side.
“Actually curious, which might tie in to something I just picked up from an informant while wainting for you.” Jade clicked on her specialized wrist comm that displayed a 2D flat holo image before her with writings on it that only her can see legibly. Any other person that try taking a peak will just see undecipherable figures. “No wonder the port security got concerned when you came into the planet as a bounty hunter, there have already been ten bounty hunters passed through customs before you came. Puerta del Cielo never really liked the idea of a bounty hunter coming here. The fact that more than ten bounty hunter entering the planet in a day should definitely get them concerned. Not to talk of the whole fiasco with the senator’s kidnapping that they tried so much to contain and it blew up on their faces. “

“I guess they don’t get to have regular bounty hunters visit. “ After taking some seconds to go through what she just said, “Ten bounty hunters? That in itself is unusual in the customary way bounty hunters work. We prefer to work alone, in pairs maybe if it is a tough job and the bounty is high enough. But that is it. party bounty hunters working together are almost never heard of, but ten hitting the same planet at the same time is weird. Still doesn’t mean it has anything to do with what I came here for. “
“I tried reaching a different conclusion from yours but still decided keeping an open mind. “ Jade then reached her two hands across the table and took hold of Marvel’s hands. “It’s really nice getting to work with you again. “
Pulling back his hands from her, he said. “It’s against things like this I brought an insurance cover. “
“What’s that supposed to mean? “ Jade all glowing happy face was replaced by one of consternation .
“That, “ Marvel nudged his head to a direction behind the chair she was sitting on.
Startled, Jade turned only to see a short statuted black man, with one natural eye and the other electronic, starring stoically at her. It was a familiar but scary image. “Oh, “ was all she could say .
Without saying anything to her, the Mole took the chair by Jade’s side and sat down causing her to squirm uncomfortably on her seat.

Hello appollox..Love your story

Best sci-Fi story ever

Hahhaha, the Mole sha...

“What’s the view like out there? “ asked his friend.
“Clear from what I can see, “ the Mole replied but with an unhappy and sad undertone. “That’s not saying much. This ain’t my turf, so I can’t really tell. Most of the innocuous looking people here could be spies. The place is just too crowded for a stalker to hide in successfully. “
Jade squeezed here nose distastefully at the Mole’s slurred use of the word spies. “Well we don’t have to stay here any longer than necessary, we can leave now if you want. “
“You already got the location? “
“Yes Marvel, else I wouldn’t have been waiting here for you, will I? “ faking an annoying irritation which she immediately regretted when she saw the Mole turned to her.
“Watch what you say to Marvel when I’m around. “ The red glow of the electronic eyes made the Earthwatch agent tense. “You may not live enough to finish the statement. “
“Chill Mole, “ Marvel placed a calming hand on his friend’s shoulder with the hand that have already pulled out a vibro blade under the table he was ready to use. “So what is keeping us? “
“Nothing. My colleague is on site now scouting the place. “ Jade stood up and headed for the door out of the restaurant with the other two following behind.

“So will you be giving me the address? “ as Jade turned to him with a quizzing look, Marvel finished. “Because if you intend tagging along, my vehicle only have room for two people, and there’s no way in this universe I’m ditching the Mole. “
“Fret none, honey boy, I have my own transportation. “ As they got out of the restaurant, Jade lagged a bit and whispered to Marvel. “What hold do you have on the Mole? “
“Why ask that? “
“He seems to be loyal to you. Because I have read his files. “ Jade peeked around at the Mole as he was busy watching everywhere for a possible stalker. “He is a very dangerous person. He doesn’t have any moral code nor show any sense of loyalty to anyone. He is selfish and self-contained. “
Marvel pretended to take a deep thought before replying. “Well he is my friend. In this age of greed and self centeredness, that word still mean something to some people. “
The Mole and Marvel stood by the Nexon 3 air car waiting for Jade who had gone to seek her transport. A low whine drew their attention to a landing slick silver colored hover bike. On the control sat Jade gently bringing the bike closer.
“Ok boys let’s move. “ With a twist of the handle and a higher pitched whine, the hover car lifted up into the air. “Hope you can catch up? “

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Somewhere along the road that joined adjacently to the one leading to the restaurant Jardín de Crístal, a dark colored hover car idled by on low power. Since most hover cars rely more on anti gravity rings under them for flight and movement than fusion drive , they can be very quiet on low power, hardly registering a sound even on a general sonar scan. Some one sitting in the dark interior of the car has had his eyes fixed at the entrance of the restaurant and saw when the nondescript silver colored hover bike had come. It didn’t raise any concerns with the watcher from the car. He became more attentive as the special looking air car, he was told to watch out for, came in for a landing.
With his long rang macro-binoculars, he watched as the men in the black air car got out, watched the area carefully. One headed for the restaurant, while the other walked to the back, obviously to do a reconnaissance of the place. The secret watcher’s interest was further heightened, when the man from the car had met with the lady who had come in on the hover bike earlier.

Damn, so this bitch has been the Earthwatch undercover agent he and his guys has been looking for all these while but has failed to find , the watcher felt bitter anger burn through him. It will be just so easy to go in there with guns blazing and blow her away, she had cost them a lot of effort, money and he had lost his high reputation because he has failed to find her. Well his order is to watch and report.
Later the second man, a dark skinned short man, came to join them. Shortly after that all three left the restaurant, the lady took the hover bike, leading the other two men who entered back to the air car out of the place heading north west.
The watcher brought out a portable hand held vid phone, punched in a number, the holo screen lit up and a face appeared.
“What’s the report? “ the face asked.
“He just left now with the damned Earthwatch contact, she should be leading them to the area. “ the watcher replied.
“Ok. Your work there is done. Make sure you leave that place unobserved. You know what and where your next duties lie, get there. “
“Yes sir. “ the watcher replied as the call was terminated . He knows what he was supposed to do next. He is to take three men with him for an ambush that is planned for later. He hope it will give him the opportunity to take a shot at that spy bitch. It will be satisfying to pay her back for all she has made him suffer.

When will my game land na....i'm missing Hardwire

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Inside his private quarters on his super cruiser, Achilles, as it course through hyperspace, Dalmar received the latest report with a positive mood, finally, CSC alias Earthwatch and Marvel bought it. He is fallen into the trap he had set for them. As Marvel goes in for the rescue, all eyes of Earthwatch, Colonial Security and Control, then the earth senate will be focused on that insignificant planet while he will strike else where no one is expecting.
He had specifically mentioned in his orders to Cedric which he was to pass down to Simon Omega and the others, that the senator must not be killed, at least until Marvel arrives on the scene. Even if the five hours have elapsed and Redmane was forced to demonstrate a public execution, the execution should be a fake one, while they should allow the information to get out through secret channels that the senator is alive. He wanted to have something that will be attractive enough to draw away earth government attention from his main strike point and focus on Puerta del Cielo. Dangling a bait in form of a live senator, will make the senate mount pressure on the earth’s executive government, in the person of the president to act. Of course, Dalmar has been the one who leaked a misleading information on a security breach in the top earth security body. Which will force CSC and Earthwatch to seek for an external help, making them employing Marvel.

Well it has worked perfectly and Marvel is on his way. It doesn’t really matter any more if the senator is kept alive. And Marvel will die attempting the rescue. An added side benefit to this is the revelation of the identity of the secret undercover agent he had long suspected was investigating a particular part of his operation in that planet. She really was that good to have eluded his best spotters on that planet. Well she will have to die with Marvel too. He might have preferred to capture her alive and perform an extensive interrogation, but no time for that now.
With just a touch of his button, the major screen in the private quarters came to life with the face of Cedric on it.
“Marvel and CSC took the bait, they are headed there now. Tell Simon Omega to go ahead and hit the tower, the road is clear. “
“Yes sir, “ Cedric said excitedly as the screen went off again.

He was surprised how well his plans have worked. Surprised that people actually took the existence of Colonies Liberation Front seriously. Of course they should, with the theatrical display on holo vid and the prison break out from Afterlife that nobody know about. After tonight the so called terrorist group will cease to exist. He chuckled shortly at that, as if the group ever existed anyway.
Dalmar love how he had played this game, which reminded him of his research into a long lost game called chess. That game was a jewel in its time, a pity many such wonders of the past are lost in these days, well a lose that is now his gain. His research and learning of chess had taught him how to be a master strategist and place his pieces carefully, knowing which to discard and keep, and when.
His goal, although covered by the easily acceptable theory of a free and completely autonomous colonies, is to gain power over the colony planets, starting with Nuterra. If the earth had passed the colony autonomy bill into law, he would have openly built an army and armed them for the war of conquering other colonies. He already have the resources in place.
At the moment, he has to do all these clandestinely. The earth may have a law stopping colonies and their administrative mega corporations from building military grade weapons, that hasn’t stopped him from building his own in secret. Earth government will be shocked with surprise and grow green with envy if they discover the level he has attained.

Ok, what do u guys think, is Marvel and Mole on a wild goose chase?

Apollux:
Ok, what do u guys think, is Marvel and Mole on a wild goose chase?

Marvel knew all along that the video propaganda is just a decoy, nevertheless, the decide to take the bait so as to lead him to their sponsors.

One thing is certain,the Marvel is knw will not allow himself to captured like a rat....reinforcement is on it way......Hardwire nd The Mole will do the trick....nice work,kontinue